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Oh no... Now I feel guilty for posting the #DonaldMcGill seaside postcards! Norty rood Peasant. 🤐

I did my best to convey the bad taste of seaside Britain, with my #DonaldMcGill postcards series this week.

The German director Jens Meurer completes the job!

SEASIDE SPECIAL ist ein liebevoller, hautnaher Blick auf Großbritanniens letzte originale "End-of-the-Pier"- Variety Show, und wie sich ihre local heroes auf die Sommersaison 2019 vorbereiten...

...mit typisch englischem Humor.

Excruciatingly awful: Britain at its #Brexit best. 😬

https://youtu.be/Zk8DkmX7JBQ

#donkeyoftheday 109:

As we've seen, Donald McGill's seaside donkeys were mainly drawn as caricatures, but this sketch shows more natural observation.

Maybe he saw a real beach donkey that was cheekily sticking its tongue out? The sketch reminds me of my donkey Morris who always stands around with his tongue hanging out!

I had planned two more donkey postcards to end the McGill week, but they have not been popular. Maybe I'll finish with this one?

#Asstodon #Wednesbray #DonaldMcGill

#donkeyoftheday 108:

The date of this Donald McGill seaside postcard is uncertain: the striped blazer suggests 1930s seaside wear? Again we have the recurring McGill donkey motif.

For non-native speakers of English: "back to front" is the wrong way round (sitting in reverse) and also "back to the front" means returning to the seaside: the sea front. Postcards advertise to the recipient that the sender is on holiday.

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#Asstodon #Tuesbray #DonaldMcGill

#donkeyoftheday 107:

Another popular Donald McGill seaside postcard of the early 1950s, using his recurring donkey motif.

For non-native speakers of English: a bottle of stout is associated with a northern English industrial working class drinking culture of the period: a dark malt beer.

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#Asstodon #Monbray #DonaldMcGill

#donkeyoftheday 106:

The donkey motif was a recurring image in Donald McGill's seaside postcards. In this example we see some primitive wordplay at work (see the ALT-text description and comments).

For non-native speakers of English, a 'blow on the front' at the seaside means a walk in the sea breeze. A blow can also mean being knocked or in this case kicked.

#Asstodon #Sunbray #DonaldMcGill

#donkeyoftheday 105:

This is the first in a week of DotD donkey pictures celebrating the 'saucy' seaside postcards of #DonaldMcGill (1875-1962).

He illustrated 12,000 postcards. In a 1941 essay about them George Orwell wrote: "Your first impression is of overpowering vulgarity. This is quite apart from the ever-present obscenity..." Indeed McGill was once prosecuted for obscenity!

In this DotD series on #Asstodon I'm exploring only the donkey theme. For further comments see picture alt-text.